A Tale of Two Wishes
It is a tale of two wishes: the wishes of a humble family in a time of grief, and the wishes of a powerful news giant in a time of crisis. The global news organization, the Associated Press (AP), was put in the position of making a choice between those wishes twice within the past week. In one case, it chose to honor the wish, in the other, it did not. News organizations are called upon to exercise impartiality in the execution of respectable news coverage. One of the hallmarks of impartiality is consistency. Why the AP chose differently in these two cases is at best a matter of simple inconsistency, and at worst a choice to inequitably apply a standard rendered disingenuous by the ultimate outcome of these two decisions.
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Category: Politics
AS finally crossed the line to the point that I feel nothing but revulsion for her. How can she support this travesty? The AP needs to be held responsible for their actions, boycott?
It’s really hard to boycott the AP since everybody uses them. I wish Gates would though, since he was so mad. As in “security, please remove that AP reporter from this press conference and the building.” and orders to cancel their embeds. And by ‘cancel’ I mean ‘shoved out the nearest door and told to find their own way home’.
I know, that is waht I truly hate about the situation. There is no way to avoid the AP. You do have a good idea though, if organizations (not just the DoD) started barring AP reporters and even pulling their credentials, the nmaybe they would perk up and realize what the ydid was wrong.